Friday, January 4, 2008

High Definition Format War Coming To An End?

by James McNally on January 4, 2008 · 2 comments

in DVD

Warner Brothers announces it will be issuing all new releases after May in Blu-ray format only.

The art­icle actu­ally states, “The studio hopes its decision will help end the format war.”

Wow. I’ve been pre­paring a blog post about the Blu-ray vs HD-DVD struggle, espe­cially as it applies to inde­pendent and doc­u­mentary films, many of which are filmed in high defin­i­tion. To this point, how­ever, none of these smaller films has been released in either high-definition format, ostens­ibly because of the high cost of trying to sup­port both formats. Perhaps this decision by Warner will clear the way for some of the little guys to get their stuff out in higher resolution.

Now to work on my speech: “Honey, I need the PlayStation 3 for my film reviewing work.”

Tagged as: blu-ray, highdefinition

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Pinewood Dialogues

by James McNally on January 4, 2008

in Travel,Web Sites

My wife and I are heading to New York City in a few weeks to enjoy a weekend of ballet, sight­seeing, food, and, I hope, cinema. I haven’t been to the city since I was a small child and so I’ve been doing some online research to find out inter­esting places for a cinephile to go. While browsing the site of the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, I found the Pinewood Dialogues, an archive of pod­casts fea­turing inter­views with actors and dir­ectors that stretches all the way back to 1989.

Even if we don’t hike it out to Queens, this online treasure trove makes the online research worthwhile.

By the way, apart from Film Forum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, where else should I con­sider spending some time on our all-too-brief weekend in the city?

Tagged as: newyorkcity, nyc, podcasts

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